Selected quotes · 59
№ 01
“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
Paulo CoelhoLove
№ 02
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo CoelhoLove
№ 03
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo CoelhoLove
№ 04
“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
Paulo CoelhoCreativity
№ 05
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 06
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 07
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Paulo CoelhoLife
№ 08
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Paulo CoelhoHumility
№ 09
“All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 10
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo CoelhoAction
№ 11
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
Paulo CoelhoFaith
№ 12
“I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”
Paulo CoelhoGrowth
№ 13
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 14
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
Paulo CoelhoGrowth
№ 15
“If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 16
“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”
Paulo CoelhoFaith
№ 17
“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”
Paulo CoelhoLove
№ 18
“We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 19
“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 20
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
Paulo CoelhoLife
№ 21
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 22
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do things you've always wanted. Do it now.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 23
“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.”
Paulo CoelhoFaith
№ 24
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
Paulo CoelhoHappiness
№ 25
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 26
“All people who are happy have God within them.”
Paulo CoelhoFaith
№ 27
“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
Paulo CoelhoAction
№ 28
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 29
“Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.”
Paulo CoelhoLife
№ 30
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
Paulo CoelhoTime
№ 31
“The desert fills men’s hearts with visions”
Paulo CoelhoCreativity
№ 32
“If you are brave enough to say 'goodbye', life will reward you with a new 'hello'.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 33
“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 34
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo CoelhoSuccess
№ 35
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Paulo CoelhoLeadership
№ 36
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo CoelhoFailure
№ 37
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo CoelhoCreativity
№ 38
“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 39
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
Paulo CoelhoCreativity
№ 40
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 41
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Paulo CoelhoLove
№ 42
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
Paulo CoelhoGrowth
№ 43
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom”
Paulo CoelhoCreativity
№ 44
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 45
“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 46
“Everyone believes the world’s greatest lie... that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”
Paulo CoelhoGrowth
№ 47
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.”
Paulo CoelhoFriendship
№ 48
“If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 49
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
Paulo CoelhoLife
№ 50
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 51
“The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 52
“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too.”
Paulo CoelhoLife
№ 53
“You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”
Paulo CoelhoFailure
№ 54
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 55
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
Paulo CoelhoWisdom
№ 56
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Paulo CoelhoSuccess
№ 57
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage
№ 58
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
Paulo CoelhoFreedom
№ 59
“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo CoelhoCourage